Thanks to Hoots Hoops McCann for this one. March challenge is to record something In a time that is odd to you. It could be as straightforward as 3/4 or even 4/4 if you never play in it, or as complex as you like. 13/8 and 15/8 always seem to be fruitful for me. 5/4 and 7/4 are often fun. But go nuts and feel free to flip a familiar tune into a new metre, or mix up metres, or whatever, really.
Handy tip: subdivide your metre into 3s and 2s to get the hang of it and count 3s as 'elephant' and 2s as 'tiger'. So 7/4 can be counted as elephant-tiger-tiger or any other combo of 1 elephant and two tigers. If you need a 4, anaconda works. Ant for 1 and so on.
So 13/8 might be counted elephant-elephant-ant-tiger-anaconda.
Tag your entries 'oddtime' and 'mefimusicchallenge'
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